Ocdulia and Mike Fallon

The level of her mother’s trust to be able to give over her own daughter to us without ever having been in a hospital before is amazing to me. Michael Flynn, the anesthesiologist I worked with on this case, observed that she went to sleep without crying, even though she had revealed how scared she was.

 

Normally we aren’t able to take last-minute patients like this, but since Del and I had set a rather light schedule for our first day of surgery, it was possible to add Ocdulia on. We felt like it was important, especially because she and her family had come such a long way and it would be difficult for them to return next week or even next year.

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